Word: followings
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...lack of federal funds. What Nixon wanted, but did not get from Congress, was a cutback to only $50 million in direct spending for hospital construction; he did not object to the loan provisions. The House quickly overrode Nixon's veto 279 to 98; the Senate may follow suit this week. It was the first time in ten years that either house of Congress has voted to override a presidential veto. In 1960, both houses passed a $750 million-a-year federal pay bill over the veto of President Eisenhower...
...objectives are limited. Only last week, in a Supreme Court case involving schools in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, N.C., the Justice Department supported a lower court decision that said only "reasonable" busing need be required-even if some all-black schools remain. Nixon pledged on March 24 to follow the letter of the law-and it now seems definite that he intends to pursue the letter closely...
Twelve has long been a magic number. There were twelve tribes of Israel, twelve Apostles, twelve months in the Julian calendar and twelve signs of the zodiac. In U.S. federal courts, criminal defendants are entitled to twelve jurors, and most states follow the same practice. Last week the Supreme Court ruled that the tradition of twelve jurors may be ignored by the states...
Volpe may have been exaggerating in order to gain support for an Administration bill to aid the Penn Central and other impoverished railroads. That measure would empower the Transportation Department to underwrite up to $750 million in private loans. Volpe said that four or five more railroads might soon follow the Penn Central into bankruptcy unless federal aid is forthcoming...
...this society worth imitating. But by rejecting the pre-programmed lives that the kindergarten-through-college channeling system provides, we also have the necessity of creating our own lives. The ones that have been planned for us, have already been lived, and there is no sense for us to follow their futile path, carrying our cog's world of American culture to the scrap heap. In exchange for having to live through some of the greatest horrors the world has ever seen, we are left to our creativity to find our own direction...